Taxpayers Spent $207 Million to Pay Bureaucrats to Work for Unions in Biden’s Final Year

[Billiejeens]

Taxpayers spent $207 million to pay federal government employees not for their official government jobs but for hours worked for unions in the 2024 fiscal year, President Joe Biden’s final year in office.

According to data exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal, federal employees worked 3.2 million hours for unions in 2024, about 11.25% of their overall work time.

Federal employees can bill the taxpayer for working with unions by negotiating contracts, resolving disputes, or doing other work for the union. The Office of Personnel Management tracks how many hours employees bill the taxpayer for union work, and the OPM under President Donald Trump issued a March memo demanding the data.


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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Taxpayers spent $207 million to pay federal government employees not for their official government jobs but for hours worked for unions in the 2024 fiscal year, President Joe Biden’s final year in office.

According to data exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal, federal employees worked 3.2 million hours for unions in 2024, about 11.25% of their overall work time.

Federal employees can bill the taxpayer for working with unions by negotiating contracts, resolving disputes, or doing other work for the union. The Office of Personnel Management tracks how many hours employees bill the taxpayer for union work, and the OPM under President Donald Trump issued a March memo demanding the data.

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“During the Biden administration, federal agencies spent millions bargaining sweetheart collective-bargaining agreements that imposed significant costs on the American taxpayer while impeding effective and efficient agency operations,” acting OPM Director Charles Ezell wrote in the memo. “Agencies paid for both the costs of their and their unions’ bargaining teams.”

Under Biden, the OPM had not released any data on taxpayer-funded union time, so this report represents the most recent update since the Trump OPM published fiscal year 2019 figures in October 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayers Spent $207 Million to Pay Bureaucrats to Work for Unions in Biden's Final Year

Taxpayer-funded union time cost $207 million in fiscal year 2024, according to an OPM report exclusively provided to The Daily Signal.

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BJ -
So much spending that the taxpayers do that is outside of bounds.
Absolutely need to get this nonsense under control

 

[candycorn]

If you job is to negotiate with unions...you’er not “billing the taxpayer”...you’re doing your job.

But I’ll humor you.

If the billing was improper, who did it and why aren’t they being arrested?

 

[Independent thinker]

If you job is to negotiate with unions...you’er not “billing the taxpayer”...you’re doing your job.

But I’ll humor you.

If the billing was improper, who did it and why aren’t they being arrested?

The government should not be negotiating with unions or management, particularly if they are for one side and not the other.

 

[Polishprince]

If you job is to negotiate with unions...you’er not “billing the taxpayer”...you’re doing your job.

But I’ll humor you.

If the billing was improper, who did it and why aren’t they being arrested?

Its definitely been deemed legal what they are doing, and they are doing it openly.

Federal employees working in unionized work sites can do union work- like labor-management meetings or disciplinary hearing- and get paid for it by John Q Twelvepack, the beleaguered taxpayer.


The precedent is that a lot of private employers get muscled to do the same thing.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

If you job is to negotiate with unions...you’er not “billing the taxpayer”...you’re doing your job.

But I’ll humor you.

If the billing was improper, who did it and why aren’t they being arrested?

Translation:

If you interrupt the Democrat swamp-grift instilled in DC since FDR multiplied the alphabet agencies at the heart of the Kafkaesque Federal govt., you're a threat to the "system" and we will call you RACIST and a THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.

Too bad the battle is over.

The people have spoken.

And MAGA has won.